It's Spring Time In Gympie.

Quite a few of these photos have already featured at holtieshouse
but this is the picture site so they need to be here too.

The beautiful carpet of blossom under the Jacaranda trees makes a
good place for this top knot pigeon to forage for supper.

Memorial Park looks at it's best when the Jacaranda's blossom.

It doesn't matter whether the blossom is still on the trees or on the
ground.

But that carpet sure looks special doesn't it?

This is the tree with the Mohawk cut near my front door.

While it wasn't one of the best sunsets from my back porch it was
worth a photo... Going, going...

Gone...

Gum Trees

Our Gum Trees, (Eucalypts) come in an amazing variety

From the beautiful to the bizarre, like this growth that has been made to
resemble a face with a little white paint.

Two Ghost Gums of central Australia located near Alice Springs.

Scribbly Gums, an East coastal variety, under the outer bark a
small caterpillar leaves these patterns as he feeds.

Imagine the trauma's this tree must have faced to become the
gnarled specimen it has grown into.

Never waste an opportunity is a maxim of Australia, and clearly
the locals around Mansfield, a small Victorian town, did not.

Mother Nature, Aussie Style.

Mother Nature really is grand, just a few examples of her diversity.

This little avenue of Jacaranda trees is at my front gate each Spring, makes
being alive a pleasure.

Same GD as before, but Stacey was only 4 years old when this was taken,
a profusion of wild flowers in the Gawler Ranges SA.

Not very far from Fosters Farm.

You make whatever you like from this photo, I see an evil face that would
have been at home in "Lord of the Rings"

It is a Tingle tree, located fittingly, in "The Valley of the Giants" near
Walpole in WA.

The giants refers to the giant Kauri trees that grow there, up to 30 metres
(95 Feet) tall, these are magnificent examples of natures best

I just love this photo, it is the epitome of the Australian bushland.

Taken near Mansfield in Victoria on a recent visit.